Today is the first-ever LOU GEHRIG DAY, deservedly named after Yankee great LOU GEHRIG. This special day is LONG overdue for the man who died of "Lou Gehrig's Disease" ("A.L.S.") over 80 years ago and showed tremendous, legendary courage in the face of that death. There's no doubt that his STATS and his GUTS make him exemplary. But why is Major League Baseball deciding to honor him NOW, is my question. "The Iron Horse" has deserved to have a day in his honor for DECADES....why NOW, I ask.
I would suggest to you that MLB is facing a big backlash for stupidly endorsing Black Lives Matter a year ago. Anyone remember the clever-yet-niave MLB / BLM logo on Opening Day last year?? Since then, of course, many have wised up to see that "Black Lives Matter" is NOT about black lives at all, it's a huge scam and MLB's endorsing of it has alienated MUCH of their (white) fanbase. This means REVENUES ARE DOWN and now that ballparks are slowly re-opening after COVID last year, MLB needs them full with as many white fans as possible (watch any game, in any city, at any time and the people in the stands are 75% white).
So, MLB gives (white icon) LOU GEHRIG a day every year, to go along now with (black) Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente's Day. And they do it (they say) to boast that they are "promoting ALS Awareness."
I don't believe it.
In my opinion, this move is not to promote ALS Awareness, it's to distract...to try to run from...and hide from...the fact that they endorsed BLM only last year.
It's to try to NEGATE their BLM endorsement.
MLB must think that their fans are as gullible as THEY are!! All of that said, HAPPY FIRST-EVER LOU GEHRIG DAY. Jackie and Roberto DESERVE their days...so does LOU, and these days white men need every break they can get!!
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